A variable tuning system is presented for launching two electrostatic waves concurrently in a magnetized plasma. The purpose of this system is to satisfy the wave launching requirements for plasma applications where maximal power must be coupled into two carefully tuned electrostatic waves while minimizing erosion to the launching antenna. Two parallel LC traps with fixed inductors and variable...

This paper presents the results of a new monopole antenna that exhibits 2.75-10.7 GHz performance. The proposed antenna consists of a radiating patch with notches excited by capacitive coupling feed. Also, the antenna’s truncated ground-plane incorporates a central notch. This modification significantly improves the antenna’s impedance bandwidth by 118% over an ultra-wideband frequency range. T...

During the 2008-2009 JET campaigns, ICRF power was coupled to ELMy H-mode plasmas using 2 distinctly different antenna systems. The newly added ITER-like ICRF antenna aimed in priority at the validation for ITER of high power density load resilient antenna concepts while the A2 antennas were equipped with 2 different load resilient transmission line circuits in order to increase the power coupl...

Atmospheric pressure plasma produced by a slot antenna with a pulsed microwave excitation was investigated to understand an electric field influence on hydrogen Balmer- (H) spectral profile using spaceand time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy. Paralleland perpendicular-polarized H emission line profiles with respect to the microwave electric field direction were measured by a polarizat...

Experimental demonstration of the amplification of electrostatic ion-cyclotron waves in a plasma with parallel ion flow shear but no magnetic-field-aligned electron current is presented. Waves with frequencies near the ion gyrofrequency and multiple harmonics launched from an antenna are observed to grow in amplitude in a region of ion flow shear. Amplification of multiple cyclotron harmonics w...

A 20 cm long 10 cm wide microwave plasma source was realized by inserting two 20 cm long 1.5 mm diameter rod antennas into the plasma. Plasma luminous distributions around the antennas were changed by magnetic field arrangement created by permanent magnets attached to the source. The distributions appeared homogeneous in one direction along the antenna when the spacing between the antenna and t...

In this paper, a planar monopole antenna is introduced, also we added some new Nano fillers such as Fumed Silica and Aluminum Oxide to RT Duriod5880 and RO3003 to produce new Nano composite materials, then new Nano composite materials are used as a substrate of a ultra-wideband monopole antenna. Antenna characteristics are considered to illustrate that, by using these Nano composite materials, ...

this paper presents an e-ring shaped printed monopole antenna for uwb applications with dual notched bands performance. in order to generate single frequency band notch function, we applied a u-ring shaped monopole antenna, and by inserting a rectangular ring in the centre of it an e-ring shaped radiating patch created and a dual band-notch function can be achieved. the measured bandwidth of th...

in this paper, a resonant slotted waveguide array antenna with circular boundary has been designed and simulated for mono-pulse airborne radar applications. the antenna parameters are:11% bandwidth in x-band (8.6-9.6ghz),vswr < 2, 38dbi directivity, sidelobes level of - 20db and 3-db beam-widths of 2.1degree. to design this antenna, it is divided into short sections (sub-arrays) each with a uni...

The theory of the ion cyclotron (IC) electrostatic parametric instabilities inhomogeneous plasma that are driven by electric field fast wave (FW) in front FW antenna is developed. It found spatial inhomogeneity IC turbulence and drift at origin flows transport a large part power, deposited to pedestal plasma, scrape-off layer later divertor mostly along lines.